Good Job Hector and Dale........... I know you have tried to make this
contact
for quite a while with your short footprint. Dale makes a special effort
for AK
contacts on the birds.
73,
Rick WA4NVM
>I am happy to report that after a lot of attempts, Dale KL7R and I reached
> a Sat contact between BP54xt and EL92sd. The Cubans cannot operate on
> AO-07
> mode B, So FO-29 is our only opportunity for long contacts.
>>>> I cannot say how much time we tried but I am sure that it was more than 10
> attempts. Dale did all the hard work, he drove around 4 miles from his
> home
> to a nearby hill. Majority of times he drove very late in the night.
>>>> All the SSB attempts failed. Today at 1920z was our first attempt on CW
> and
> It was successfully!
>>>> Dale `s working conditions are a Yaesu FT-817 (only 5W semi-duplex) and
> ARROW antenna with preamplifier. My working conditions are a majority
> homebrew setup, 10 elements yagi on 2m and 18 elements yagi for 70cm with
> a
> homebrew preamplifier.
>>>> Thanks very much to Dale for his constancy and effort!
>>>> PD: I continue looking for new grids and long contacts on satellite, if
> you
> are into any footprint with EL92sd and wan to try, please drop me an
> email.
>>>>> 73!
>>>> Hector, CO6CBF
>> EL92sd
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